Katherine Piper

PhD Student, Computational Mechanics, Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science, Computational Mechanics, Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae One Page Resume

Technology Development

Design and Manufacturing Processes for High-Volume Production of Two-Phase Loops

Novel Geometric Considerations for Solid and Porous Design in Loop Heat Pipe Evaporators (Provisional Patent assigned to California Institute of Technology Sept 2025)

Hybrid Loop Heat Pipe Architectures (NASA New Technology Report, Sept 2025)

Papers

Constrained Optimization of Whitney Forms for Nonlinear Projection-Based Reduced Order Methods (Preprint)

Geometric Considerations in Loop Heat Pipe Evaporator Design (In Preparation)

Ductile fracture in functionally graded materials: Insight into crack behavior within the gradient interface (2024)

Selected Presentations

Constrained Optimization Methods in Design for Additive Manufacturing (Materials Science and Technology, 2026)

Multiscale Architectured Wick Geometries in Additively Manufactured Loop Heat Pipes (Materials Science and Technology, 2026)

Space Technology, on Earth: A study of two-phase cooling in datacenters (Carnegie Mellon University Energy Week, 2026)